US
indicts Omar in Pearl murder.
A US grand jury on Mar. 14 indicted Ahmed
Saeed Omar Sheikh, the terrorist under arrest in Pakistan for the kidnapping and
murder of American reporter Daniel Pearl, lodging charges that could bring death
penalty. Omar Sheikh was arrested in Lahore, after a long
time. Before his arrest he was coolly resting with his family and
recently born child in Lahore, till the pressure was built on Pakistan by
US. India has also asked for his extradition, like was done in Aftab
Ansari's case from UAE, which was again done because of US pressure. Omar Sheikh
is wanted in India for the USIS attack in Kolkata and for his role in the IC 814
hijacking.

The
question now is that whether Omar Sheikh should be handed over to Indian police
for the terrorist attacks or handed over to US for being involved in WTC /
Pentagon attacks and more recently WSJ correspondent Daniel Pearl. The simple
answer is, if he is handed over to India, another plane will get hijacked
and the drama of releasing few more terrorists will repeat. Omar should be
handed over to FBI immediately for further interrogation which involves
all the terrorist attacks and economic support to other terrorists within the
Al-Qaida network of Islamic terrorists including the participation in the
Bosnian region.

Pakistani Police have accused Omar Sheikh of supplying the
photographs and masterminding the kidnapping of Daniel Pearl, after he was arrested
under US pressure. "The (other) three arrested people of his group
told us that he had financed the kidnapping of the U.S. journalist," a
police officer told the court. "Investigation also pointed out that he was
the financier." Earlier Bush government had freezed the UTN assets as
part of Operation Green Quest to serve a broader
mission against the war on terrorism. What about the assets of
individuals who fund the terrorists all over the Islamic world? Also the role of previously unknown
National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty needs to be
investigated. This organisation had threatened to keep Pearl in
"inhumane" conditions to protest at the US treatment of prisoners from
the Afghan war.

Amnesty
to Islamic terrorists may prove dangerous to US and rest of the world.

US needs to put enough pressure on Pervez Musharraf to
bring him and others to justice in United States. Attorney-General John
Ashcroft seems to have hinted at this, but US has to speedup the
process because the Musharraf government has already directed the
country's provinces to release the detained activists of various terrorists
groups like JeM and LeT. The government in its decision to give a amnesty
to terrorists had also unsuccessfully tried to drop charges against Omar Sheikh
at least once under pressure from the ISI. A Pakistani arrested on the day just before US announced the
indictment, named Adnan Khan was forced to give a statement that he had
killed Daniel Pearl. Hours later he retracted his confession, again under the US
pressure.

World needs to take note of strategy of
Musharraf government acting under ISI pressure. On one hand Musharraf government
is arresting the terrorist groups linked to Al-Qaida and on the other hand
releasing them by giving them amnesty under ISI pressure. These terrorist
may strike in future. At a court hearing in Pakistan few days back, Omar Sheikh
had threatened to make the US pay dearly if he was extradited from Pakistan to
face charges. It remains to be now seen how is this situation handled.
Will US pressurize only for Omar OR also raise the voice against the amnesty
given to terrorists linked to Al-Qaida. It has been proved that the terrorists
which are set free from Pakistan cross the border to join their brothers in the
Afghan region to fight against the US-lead troops who have currently launched
Operation Anaconda in Eastern Afghanistan. Few of these terrorists are also
pushed into the Indian territory to launch terrorist attacks in various parts of
India.

Islamic terrorists are spreading Jihad at a very rapid pace. World needs to know that the common threat to human survival is to deal
with the International Terrorism, Islamic Terrorism being the worst of all.